Chapter 153: The Goddess's Temple

  It is said that before the war drums sounded, supplies were already on their way. Although the Thundercrash Clan only sent a battalion of 900 people, this number was not a small problem for supplies. So Mo Yan began to mobilize Zeppelin No. 1 to transport materials to a village on the border of Ailan while the troops were still training, and also hired local people to establish supply warehouses.

  This depot will be the main supply base for the mixed legion named Lightning after leaving Erland. For two months, Zeppelin No. 1 transported supplies to this village, enough for half a year's consumption by the Lightning Legion, and later there will be transport teams walking on mountain roads, transporting various supplies.

  The entire warehouse's defense will be handled by the Party Guards and two monster legions. With an action as large as Thundercrag's, some spies lurking within Thundercrag would not have been able to notice it. However, in the early stages of Thundercrag, flying boats were used for transporting supplies, so these shadows could only roughly know that they were transporting goods towards the border of Eran, but wouldn't know where exactly they were being transported to.

  As the late-stage demonic legion and SS troops set out, even if these shadows followed the demonic legion to know the location of the warehouse, at that time the entire warehouse was already heavily guarded, and it would not be easy to carry out sabotage. With the passage of time, from Pasha's proposal to hire mercenaries, the two-month preparation in Thunder Cliff has come to an end.

  After Mo Yan held a mobilization meeting for this army, the Thunder Legion set off from Leiting Cliff in an imposing and orderly formation. They left Leiting Cliff with not too many supplies and quickly passed through the mountain roads that had been cleared. Arriving at a small town used as a warehouse to rest and replenish once.

  There, the dwarves would receive early artillery transported by airships and some transport vehicles pulled by pack mules. After all, after leaving Ailan, the terrain is much flatter, allowing for extensive use of animal power. Mo Yan's combat requirements for the Thunderbolt Legion were just like their name - to be fast! Once they left Ailan, they would quickly maneuver to find the enemy, then quickly defeat them and retreat far away, sweeping everything with a swift and decisive momentum.

  After all, the Thunder Legion only had 900 people. If they couldn't move quickly and were surrounded by a large number of legions, it would be somewhat dangerous. Although with brute force, the Thunder Legion could resist tens of thousands of Central Plains people, but that would come at a terrible cost.

  And they have the best weapons and equipment in Thunder Bluff, no need to fight hard with those cannon fodder legions. The Carthaginians don't care how many casualties you pay, they are calculated by the number of destructions and occupations. As long as they can annihilate their legions one by one and make money, there is no need to let themselves suffer in vain.

  This time, the one in charge of commanding the Lightning Legion is Raifora, who was appointed by Moyan. This man, who has been staying in Thunder Cliff for some time, makes Moyan feel relatively at ease. After that battle with Lobito, Raifora returned to Thunder Cliff and devoted himself to studying tactics. Although he still has some of the stiffness of a Sault person, at least he is much more flexible than others.

  And assisting him were Giras and others from Carthage, who were remnants of the Carthaginian forces that had fled to Elan after being defeated in the north. They were captured by Reforla at a mountain pass and, having witnessed the unusual tactics employed by Rifuto, decided to stay on and learn from them, eventually leading the Second Demon Army Corps.

  However, as Mo Yan began to use some demons as the base of his command, these people's usefulness became smaller and smaller. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Mo Yan cleared out everyone except for Kira from the Second Demon Army Corps, letting them participate in the attack as vanguards of the Thunderbolt Army Corps.

  These people, who had been stuck in Thunder Bluff for over a year, were excited and flushed with excitement when they heard that they would be attacking the northern part of Carthage occupied by Marlo. These homesick Carthaginians had already prepared everything before the departure of the Lightning Legion a week ago. They even spent eight or nine out of ten of their earnings in Thunder Bluff to buy high-quality equipment forged by the dwarves.

  As the Lightning Legion headed towards the border of Eran, Mo Yan didn't need to worry too much. All the Sart people knew that this was the army of the New Eran Federation and had already made contact with them, so Mo Yan only needed to pay attention when they arrived at the border and started fighting against the Malo people. Now Mo Yan was busy with another matter.

  As his greatest reliance in this world, the goddess's strength is also Mo Yan's strength. He needs to think of a way to restore the goddess's power as much as possible, although the goddess did not ask Mo Yan to do anything, and Mo Yan actually does not know how to do it either. However, Mo Yan still roughly thought of some methods.

  In Mo Yan's view, as a deity. The most basic thing is to have followers, of course. As the goddess of the old world demons, it is normal for these low-intelligent demons to worship the goddess. But one problem has been troubling Mo Yan for a long time, and the difficulty he encountered was not how to make demons worship the goddess.

  As the Thundercliff's final boss, he only needs to give an order and all the demons will follow his will, sincerely worshiping a god they don't understand. What troubles Moyan is how to create the image of the goddess.

  According to the goddess's own words, all the demons who knew her appearance had long since died. From this point, it can be inferred that the goddess does not have a fixed appearance, which is also considered reasonable by Mo Yan. After all, no one knows what the gods look like, and the previous appearance of the goddess was probably thought up by the demons, and then the goddess appeared in the form imagined by the demons.

  So, since the goddess no longer has an external appearance, it's better to redefine her looks. However, Mo Yan got stuck at this point. This can be said to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to DIY one's own desired goddess look, which is almost no different from playing with customized maidens.

  However, Mo Yan was a bit too greedy. He himself said that he couldn't be sure what kind of goddess he liked. It seemed that as long as she had a beautiful appearance, he would like her. Whether it was the holy type, the intelligent type, the aesthetic type, the pure and true type, or the cute type with a bit of playfulness... this huge problem had Mo Yan stumped for a long time.

  There was a time when Mo Yan had nothing to do, he would stare at the various girls in the White House, even Jones became his reference object. But as soon as he thought of the cute body under Jones' skirt hiding something as thick as his own, Mo Yan felt another wave of distress, clearly looking so adorable... why was it male?!

  After being entangled for a while, Mo Yan seemed to have figured it out. Who says gods only have one form? Since he likes many types, why not design them all and let each image manage a function. The holy one controls morality and chastity, the intelligent one controls wisdom, the beautiful one manages beauty, etc., which is also reasonable.

  After making the decision, Mo Yan specially cleared out a whole day to indulge in his desires in his room, drawing all sorts of goddesses he wanted, and then handed over these love-filled sketches to stone carvers. He asked them to turn the images on the sketches into stone sculptures within a month. Meanwhile, the upper city area of Leiting Cliff also began constructing a building with a square.

  These things were done at the same time as the preparations for the war against Marlo, and on the day that the Thunder Legion left Thunder Cliff, a large number of craftsmen and dwarves' labor had also completed the construction. This building, which does not belong to any style of any race on the mainland, has an exterior as white as the White House, with numerous high-rise spires piercing the sky like sharp swords, and its grandeur is majestic and magnificent.

  There are not many other decorations in the building, except for some reliefs and murals, it is a beautiful statue. Sartre and the Grey Dwarf stonemasons perfectly turned the drawings into stone statues according to Mo Yan's requirements, each of which is an elegant or charming goddess statue standing around the great hall of the building.

  This Gothic-style building, designed by Mo Yan, was almost completed with the labor of half of the Thunder Cliff, and now this miniaturized Cologne Cathedral has become a temple for the goddess. Although theoretically open to everyone, in reality, not even half a person has come in.

  The Sart people have always believed in the god of war, while the gray dwarves are one of the few races that only believe in machinery. Living underground for many years, they are obsessed with minerals and steel. Of course, this is also related to their gods, who fell in battle with other gods a long time ago. They are already a race without divine protection, perhaps it was because of this that they were forced to hide underground.

  After the grand cathedral was completed, Mo Yan didn't actually intend to make a big deal out of it. When people came to investigate, he didn't explain much either. After all, this was a temple built for the demon creatures, and Mo Yan himself didn't know how to explain it to others. Should he tell them that their gods were invaders, while this one was the true god?

  In the future, when everyone can tear off their masks, it's okay to do so, but for now, it's better to keep a low profile. Now that we have temples and idols to worship, what comes next is the necessary religious rituals. Mo Yan himself is an agnostic, or if you will, an atheist.

  For what religious rituals Mo Yan didn't have any experience, he could only refer to the ceremonies in the church he had been to during his studies, but he wasn't very focused and couldn't remember much. He managed to come up with a small booklet of only a few dozen pages, roughly recounting the story of the goddess's creation: "The goddess said let there be light..." No mistake, this little booklet Mo Yan directly plagiarized from the Bible, and just copied the most classic part of the beginning, after which the content started to become nonsense...

  Mo Yan even gave himself a playful papal title and for a period of time, every morning he would wear a white robe to the temple, pretending to pray in front of the goddess. In reality, however, he was looking at those statues and thinking about all sorts of things.